Molly Gloss (born November 20, 1944) is an American writer of historical fiction and science fiction.

Life

Gloss grew up in rural Oregon and began writing seriously when she became a mother. She now lives in Portland, Oregon, and was close friends with fellow science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin. She has taught writing and literature of the American West at Portland State University, and currently is on the faculty of the Pacific University MFA program.

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Awards and nominations

The Jump-Off Creek was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and won both the 1990 Ken Kesey Award for the Novel and 1990 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award 1996 Whiting Award in Fiction Wild Life was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and won the 2000 James Tiptree, Jr. Award for work that explores or expands notions of gender The Hearts of Horses was a finalist for the 2008 Oregon Book Award “The Grinnell Method” won the Theodore Sturgeon Award for the short story in 2013 Unforeseen was a World Fantasy finalist in 2020 In 2021 Molly received the C.E.S. Wood Award “in recognition of an enduring, substantial literary career”

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Bibliography

Novels

Stories

Anthologies

Notable short fiction

"Personal Silence", 1990 (reprinted in Year's Best Science Fiction 1991) "Lambing Season", 2002 (nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Short Story and a Nebula Award for Best Short Story)

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References

External links

mollygloss.com (official site) Review of The Dazzle of Day by Jo Walton

Guide to the Molly Gloss papers at the University of Oregon.

Profile at The Whiting Foundation

1944 births

Living people

20th-century American novelists

21st-century American novelists

American science fiction writers

American women short story writers

American women novelists

Portland State University faculty

Writers from Portland, Oregon

Women science fiction and fantasy writers

20th-century American women writers

21st-century American women writers

20th-century American short story writers

21st-century American short story writers

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners

Novelists from Oregon

American women academics